I couldn't find an answer in the forum for this. I can't use keyboard to open the dropdown or select an item by typing the first character. If I remember correctly, this is how it has always been in gaim for me. Don't know if this is the normal GTK behavior for comboboxes or the way gaim configures it (or something in my environment?). I am a keyboard person and hate having to reach for mouse after finishing more than half of the task by keyboard (e.g., you press ^B and after typing in the first 3 fields, you have to use keyboard to select the protocol. The same applies to adding a new a/c, though I don't do it all that often). I am using windows Gaim 2.0.1.
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I couldn't find an answer in the forum for this. I can't use keyboard to open the dropdown or select an item by typing the first character. If I remember correctly, this is how it has always been in gaim for me. Don't know if this is the normal GTK behavior for comboboxes or the way gaim configures it (or something in my environment?). I am a keyboard person and hate having to reach for mouse after finishing more than half of the task by keyboard (e.g., you press ^B and after typing in the first 3 fields, you have to use keyboard to select the protocol. The same applies to adding a new a/c, though I don't do it all that often). I am using windows Gaim 2.0.1.
1) pidgin
2) I don't know about you but I can hit shift-tab to select the protocol dropdown or tab around past the cancel/ok buttons to do the same.
Hit space to open the dropdown.
Great, the space bar works great. Thanks.